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We continue to bear the burden of the legacy of our last three presidents

President Uhuru Kenyatta

Chief Justice Bereford in 1309 told of the story of the Three Gallows: Once upon a time a man lay sick in his bed, and was so weak that he fainted.

He had a dream. He was in a place with three pairs of gallows, each one higher than the last. On the shortest hung his grandfather; on the middle one hung his father. He asked why this was so.

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